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The Town of Kindness
A Story in Memory of Nurse Julie Editor’s note: I wrote the original of this story in October, 1988, many years before meeting my nurse-mentor, Julie. She died this month after a long journey with...
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Want to Help Me Write My Book?
May 5, 2014 Dear Readers, Want to help me write my book? Rest is a book of readings about finding rest and renewal as we care for others. The poems and stories I’m writing for Rest are relatively easy...
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Hyperbole and the Long Winter Walk
Once upon a time, in a small log house at the end of a long lane, there lived a dog named Hyperbole. Whenever his friend Edward would come driving down the long lane to visit him, Hyperbole would...
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Dear Emma: Snappy Letters to My Alter Ego
Editor’s note: From time to time I share my writing process with readers of the Joyous Paradox blog. Today’s post is about my literary character Emma Davies, who began showing up in my notebook when my...
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Notebook: Opal’s Madonna
Another Friday morning. Mim showers in Opal’s salmon-pink bathroom. The smell of Cameo brand soap, wet in her hand, reminds her of kissing her mother-in-law’s fragrant cheek. Already, though Opal has...
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Notebook: My Character Clemency Begins Chemo
Editor’s note: In the months since I last wrote to you at Joyous Paradox, I have begun a novel. Four women meet and bond in a healing garden, a cancer support center modeled after the Virginia Thurston...
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